The James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing is awarded every four years by the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...

(SIAM). The award, named in honor of

James H. Wilkinson James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. Edu ...

, is made for research in, or other contributions to,

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods th ...

and

scientific computing Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

during the 6 years preceding the year of the award. The prizewinner receives the prize, with $2000 (US), at the autumn conference of SIAM and gives a lecture there. It is intended to stimulate younger scientists in the early years of their careers.

Prize winners

* 1982

Björn Engquist Björn Engquist (also ''Bjorn Engquist''; born 2 June 1945 in Stockholm) has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians. Life He received his Ph ...

* 1985

Charles S. Peskin Charles Samuel Peskin (born April 15, 1946) is an American mathematician known for his work in the mathematical modeling of blood flow in the heart. Such calculations are useful in the design of artificial heart valves. From this work has emerged ...

* 1989 * 1993 James Demmel * 1997

Andrew M. Stuart Andrew M. Stuart is a British mathematician, working in applied and computational mathematics. In particular his research has focused on the numerical analysis of dynamical systems, applications of stochastic ordinary and partial differential ...

* 2001 Thomas Y. Hou * 2005 Emmanuel Candès * 2009 Assyr Abdulle * 2013 Lexing Ying * 2017 Lek-Heng Lim * 2021 Stefan Güttel

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, James H. Computer science awards Awards of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Awards established in 1982

Prize winners

See also

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